there is a big difference between “making space for others” and “lazy rationalisation of your unwillingness to engage”.

ourcatastrophe:

[…] being more concerned with not fucking up than with doing good is about your personal purity, not about the effect you have on the world, and very few people have the resources to maintain this illusion of purity for themselves.  I hear so many rationalisations for staying within your comfort zone under the guise of “solidarity” and I have to say that they all strike me as utterly self-indulgent and self-deceiving.   push yourself or don’t, but don’t try and recast your every action or inaction as anti-oppressive. 

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Tags: everything pet peeves theory of change touchy-feely bullshit subculture
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    there’s our catastrophe: there...big difference between “making
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    well, i guess someone can see right through me…
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    my tumblr has become...my friends” blog.
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    I also think it’s important that...everyone can be anti-oppressive with every
  13. ndnsurgency reblogged this from vladislava and added:
    Agreed. So important because being an ally isn’t static, it’s a lifelong commitment and it’s fucking complicated.
  14. vladislava reblogged this from mosshunt and added:
    OBVIOUSLY this isn’t all true 100% of the time, every time. But whoa.
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    oh hey, this is a thing i am thinking about and working on so much right now and here it is in handy reblog form thnx...
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  22. fatmf reblogged this from hobbitdragon and added:
    Shit. I think I’ve done some of these things too. Yeah… It’s inspiring, though, to see ways I can improve.
  23. boyprincessdiaries reblogged this from ourcatastrophe and added:
    so important. I definitely am guilty
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    reblogging this post again because: man, this...‘ally’ politics